Home / Topics / Land Quotes

Land Quotes

Browse 5022 quotes about Land.

Land Quotes

“Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.”

Mean Land Subjects Emotional India Income Farmers

Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.”

Men May Use Community Land Subjects Degrees Property Every Man Welfare Public Welfare

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.”

Humans Reason Problem Form My Own Land Subjects Approach Research West Species Indian Rejects Divides Homo Sapiens Variables Classification Snail Differentiation

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever.”

Sea Land Subjects Benefits Understood Advantage Attraction Rulers Dominion Destitute

Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

“politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.”

Jobs Land Subjects Dangerous Conversation Hottest

Author:Barbara Walters

“I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?”

Way Different Faces Break Fantasy Land Subjects Goes On Depth Believer Setting Settings Firm Vacation Terrific Mold

Author:Jim Starlin

“But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.”

Persons Different Home Law Humanity Causes Creativity Creative Land Subjects Higher Discovery Mere Deeds Native Creative Person Native Land Higher Law

Author:Stefan Zweig

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.”

“Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.”

Facts Study Taken Land Subjects Civilization Elements Western Obvious Denied Elders Egyptian Idiom Nile Egyptian Civilization

Author:Michael Tsarion

“India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.”

Knows Doe States Government Rights Land Subjects India Centre Central Government

Author:Narendra Modi